As Hanukkah approached and I gathered my holiday supplies, I ran through my list to make sure I had everything I needed. Latkes? Check. Chcoclate Gelt? Double check. Menorah? Check. Candles? Check.... I think? How many am i going to need? Now, I could
In 1973 Vaughn Pratt published a paper about a method of top down expression parsing he devised while implementing the CGOL programming language to little fan fare. And quietly it sat forgotten as the academic world did mental gymnastics around LL(1),
Initially designed in the 1970's as a "portable assembly" language to facilitate implementing Pascal compilers on the varying computer architectures of the day, P-Code is the progenator of all modern bytecode interpreters. The success of the UCSD Pasca
It can be posited that strings are the most important data type in computing. Without character strings, all we have is a calculator. It is strings which allow us to compose documents, read and send emails, program in anything higher level than binary,
Digital Search Trees are an interesting data structure. Often times they are used as a gentle introduction to bit-oriented data structures, such as PATRICIA tries. Having just covered some other bit focused data structures and algorithms in the previou
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Procedural Map Generation with Binary Space Partitioning
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Exact Match String Searching: The Knuth-Morris-Pratt Algorithm
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The visitor pattern: OOP takes on the Expression Problem
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Improving mgcLisp's define syntax
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Separating the Men from the Boys, Knuth Style
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Reducing rotations during deletion from AVL trees
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Parsing Lisp: From Data To Code
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Swiz Heaps: A deterministic modification of Randomized Meldable Heaps
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Let's talk Eval/Apply
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BST Deletion: Removal By Merge